Sarah Farnsley is a choreographer, dancer, teacher, and passionate dancers’ rights advocate. She holds a BFA in Dance Performance from Butler University and an MA in Dance Politics & Sociology from University of Roehampton. She has choreographed for Louisville Ballet, Ballet Memphis, and Ballet Theatre of Indiana, where in 2017 she created and co-directed the dance film Absolution, which premiered at Dances With Films Festival in LA and has appeared at more than a dozen international film festivals, winning awards for Best New Director and Best Experimental Short. Sarah began her dance career in the US, performing with the Louisville Ballet, Ballet Memphis, Chicago Repertory Ballet, Aerial Dance Chicago, Esoteric Dance Project, and Elements Contemporary Ballet. She was a guest artist with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal for 3 years before relocating to London, England. There she performed with English National Ballet at Royal Albert Hall as part of their 2016 Swan Lake production, as well as a season with New English Ballet Theatre. In 2019 she was invited by Édouard Lock to be his rehearsal assistant as he restaged his work Iolanta/The Nutcracker at the Paris Opera Ballet. During the pandemic, Sarah was selected to be part of the Mayor of London’s Creative Freelancers: Shaping London’s Recovery (CF:SLR) cohort where she led and authored reports for two research groups. She is currently working to expand and develop the ideas generated in CF:SLR through her choreographic work in her new home in Indiana.